Someone has probably already said this, but I'll say it again.
The idea of a holy trinity is a very pagan idea, which, like the ideas of a virgin birth or a resurrection and promise of eternal reward are.
Here are a few examples:
In Babylon it was Nimrod, Semiramas, and Tammuz
In Egypt it was Osiris, Isis, and Horus
Within Israel pagan gnosticism it was Kether, Hokhmah, and Binah
In Plato's philosophy it was the Unknown Father, Nous/Logos, and the world soul.
God cannot be broken into 3 parts:
EXO 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
ISA 45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
ISA 44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
ISA 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me.
ISA 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
REV 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
A trinity was not a new idea in the time of Jesus. It served the newly-forming cult of Christianity quite well, which was breaking away from its Jewish roots and trying to appeal to pagan people. That is where we get all these super-miracles in the Gospels from: long-running Pagan ideas. They were all added as a sales-pitch to the Gentiles.
The Holy Trinity defied the rules of the OT, but fit perfectly with the ideals of pagans, just like much of the NT.
The idea of a holy trinity is a very pagan idea, which, like the ideas of a virgin birth or a resurrection and promise of eternal reward are.
Here are a few examples:
In Babylon it was Nimrod, Semiramas, and Tammuz
In Egypt it was Osiris, Isis, and Horus
Within Israel pagan gnosticism it was Kether, Hokhmah, and Binah
In Plato's philosophy it was the Unknown Father, Nous/Logos, and the world soul.
God cannot be broken into 3 parts:
EXO 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
ISA 45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
ISA 44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
ISA 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me.
ISA 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
REV 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
A trinity was not a new idea in the time of Jesus. It served the newly-forming cult of Christianity quite well, which was breaking away from its Jewish roots and trying to appeal to pagan people. That is where we get all these super-miracles in the Gospels from: long-running Pagan ideas. They were all added as a sales-pitch to the Gentiles.
The Holy Trinity defied the rules of the OT, but fit perfectly with the ideals of pagans, just like much of the NT.
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey
